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Originally Posted by alphasaur
It's for sure deadlier if you're older and or have other comorbidities. In 30 and under risk of death is fairly low even compared to something like Flu. For children, it's near zero.
Death is not the only metric we should be looking at though. It is a novel disease so we don't know if it might cause you to develop some sort of fibrosis or cancer or cardiac abnormality in 30 years. There does seem to be evidence that covid causes some long-term issues.
Look at something like HPV where it was implicated in cervical cancer at a relatively long period of time after the disease was discovered.
In my opinion this is why the vaccine is lower risk than the disease and why I chose to get it, along with protecting my patients and family members.
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For covid and the vaccine, I just shrug when people mention long term effects. We won't know those for whatever period is considered long term lol.